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Hello,
I’m trying to solve this puzzle but I’ve found a problem. I use the different tests to test my script and I don’t understand how you can get the third test’s result. In the input data, we can find “#1” character and no rules are given to know what to do with it because this character isn’t in the output. Is there a rule missing ?
Thank you for help.
To get the third test’s result you should get two previous first, those contain the “missing” rules.
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I was about to ask if i missed something about # and % ^^ thank you @Uljahn
I would have appreciated to see a rule about reading the previous answer to understand.
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I found this puzzle refreshing, the author did a nice job.
In my view it’s good as it is, with the reader having to investigate a bit.
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Nice idea to avoid the Yet Another Crypto Puzzle syndrome.
Loved the idea of having further explanations in the testcases, it seemed like having multiple puzzles in one puzzle. Had fun solving this 
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What is the effect of %? It’s not explicated in the rules.
The missing rules are in the last test case you passed. You have to read your result.
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Someone once said, “A puzzle is only a puzzle if the puzzler finds it puzzling.” (Confucius maybe?)
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The idea to put additional rules in testcases is very nice 
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The idea of the puzzle is definitely interesting, but it can cause negative emotions, for example, when my solution does not pass the pretests, I almost never look at the full pretest data, and many do not even know that they can be viewed. Therefore, for beginners, this will not be a puzzle, but suffering. This is one point, and the second is that even though I know English quite well and from the first reading about % I understood what to do, but I was not sure, since there were two sentences that, in my opinion, were formulated VERY poorly (I tried to use a translator, but it did not help much), and the second sentence only confuses, I do not know whether this was done intentionally or not, but if not, then why could not it be written more clearly (for example: Symbols in odd positions should be at the beginning of the list, and in even ones at the end, the order of the symbols relative to each other is preserved), it is not clear to me.
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From the puzzle goal:
These messages are extremely important. Make sure your commanding officer reads every word!
I can relate to this kind of suffering. As a young boy, I sat down to take an exam. The directions at the top said, “Read every question before starting.” Naturally, I didn’t. The last question read, “Only do the even-numbered problems. Any work done on odd problems will be marked wrong.” Ouch.
Later, as a young man, I endured many “some assembly required” projects. But did I read the instructions? Of course not. I just couldn’t bear it.
Now I’m an old man, and you might think I’ve learned my lesson. You would be wrong. I still prefer to rely on my built-in sense of direction rather than consult a map. When I’m alone, I’ll stubbornly struggle for as long as it takes to find my way. And when the family’s with me—well, let’s just say the car ride gets… spirited.
Not intentional at all. I have already alluded to my poor performance in school as a young person.
I have read through everything again. As of today, 237 CodinGamers have completed the puzzle out of the 295 that have started. An 80% completion rate for an easy puzzle is acceptable. I appreciate your comments, but I am not going to make any changes at this time. It has been two years since I originally provided this quote so, I will end with it again here:
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- It does not become a grown man to answer in a passive-aggressive manner.
- Although these tasks are called Puzzles, I do not think that the creators literally thought of these tasks (problems) as puzzles when they called them Puzzles, considering that these “puzzles” are no different from tasks on other platforms where you need to write a solution to a given problem.
- Tests are not part of the condition, they are needed to check the correctness of the written solution.
- At the time of my solution, the puzzle had a rating of 3.9, which kind of hints that something is wrong with it, and in my opinion, considering that the main task of the puzzle is quite interesting, then I see only one place for dissatisfaction.
- If you want to create a puzzle, then why not make your own puzzle for CodingEscape? This is the right place to solve riddles.
- That is, literally written MY commander should read the messages, NOT me, who deciphers them. Again, for some reason, instead of clearly writing, Please read every decrypted message, you write, Make sure your commanding officer reads every word!, well, my commander read it, but decided not to report it to me.
- Guidelines do exist, but many people ignore them.
My hope was to be light-hearted and self-deprecating, not passive-aggressive. I apologize.
Timinator
over 2 years ago
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I have to admit that I rarely look at my output. I simply look to see if the test case turns green and I look at any debug output I’m generating.
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From a contribution page of Word Search for Programmers puzzle.
I think it’s time to stop this discussion and move on as we should focus on the puzzle itself.
Tests can be unfolded by clicking on the little icon at the top right.
Why did you tell me that?